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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... Confidential when I was applying to colleges, and this is probably a good thing ... they demonstrate your desire to challenge yourself and take risks (and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  '05 Special thanks to: Rachel Fong '12 and the East Campus i3 Team ... Imagination." You can watch it here:   Professor Woodie Flowers once ... depends entirely on how you look at it." We wanted to make a video that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  to MIT entirely barefoot due to a massive blister, and have a tendency ... since middle school, and now that I’m here I practically have to pinch ... ’m at this school. That, and I have trouble waking up to alarms. So this

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  time studying and you won't get to sleep much. But I've really been ... to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  i saw you four ways to follow MIT students

  

  to vicariously ride the ups and downs of MIT. they can't tell you if ... ; 2) isawyou  isawyou is not as prolific as it once was, and today it ... poets, hopeless romantics and people trying to share a shy compliment

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  it is the hot girl summer //   went to The Eras Tour and over ... // watched Qala a little too late and cried a little too much // cut my hair ... // dressed in pink to watch Barbie! with my sister // screamed to Speak Now

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  MIT, but it was so, so awesome. I learned so much and I got to see so ... ), and then my brower froze when I was about to publish and I lost the ... , there are lots of things about the transition to grown up life and this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  of my whining, because he shot back a link to this book title and said ... of her novels. Yes,  its really ok to read a novel once in awhile! So ... is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Baby Steps It made tonight's newswire. The grass is still green in Boston Common.

  

  , sometimes to my detriment. My high school math teacher once likened my mind to ... immediate peers at home had gone on to university, and a spread of gap years ... with a thousand others, and besides, I was merely thankful to no longer

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not ... on taking 7.05 and don't want the surprise to be ruined!) That's all ... wanted to donate blood for a demonstration. I thought he was joking and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  Calc BC at all, so much so I was scared to send out mid-year reports. And ... ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... session turned out to be really convincing and I decided to apply to MIT. If

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  words to, reading them back, and rewriting them until they feel true. I ... and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of ... 's mission to make the world a better place Collaborative and cooperative

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  . As the artery which connects most of the main academic and ... visits at least once every day. Because it's MIT, the Infinite is also a site of random tomfoolery. For example, MITHenge, which, according to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  getting your big packet in March you come to CPW and get to explore all the different dorms. After visiting and getting a feel for the dorms you get to ... temporary room and continue to visit as many dorms as possible during

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  MIT, we knew we wanted to UROP at least once in our time here, because ... trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an ... mechanics of the game happened over this past summer, and our job was to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  (MOOC) provider, created by MIT and Harvard and used by over 70 ... project-based 3.086 (Innovation and Commercialization) to the problem set ... for online problems Charts and diagrams to connect class topics and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at ... Strategic Partnerships at Meta, and his vision is to enable Boston to become ... walk to your drawers and pull out digital work files, or find your movie

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  dispatched to the snowman to assess the damage and administer any treatments ... shifted their footwear to boots, started doubling their pants and shirts, and we're starting to see winter hats. I, for one, have ordered the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  , I emailed the women's ultimate frisbee team and showed up to practice ... and which way we were forcing the other team to throw, that was enough ... began understanding the game more and more. But I still needed to work on

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... business outfit (go Yellow Team!) for the final presentation and am about to ... You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008